4 Fruity Desserts plus #CookBlogShare 2019 Wk 27

Enjoy the taste of summer with these 4 fruity desserts. Plus you can read about a foodie trip to the Waveney Valley and find #CookBlogShare week 27 linky.

Gosh what a busy month June been! So much has happened since the last #CookBlogShare on Recipes Made Easy that it feels like it was much more than a month ago. A lot seems to be happening at once. I have been on a fabulous foodie tour of the Waveney Valley; more on that in a moment, spent 5 days in Prague, a city much changed since my last visit 20 or so years ago and as this post goes live I will be away yet again this time in the North of England. After that, I have nothing much planned so I guess I had better make the most of it.

A Foodie Tour of the Waveney Valley

One of the many things I love about being a cookery writer is that I sometimes get the chance to see how our foods are produced. Regular readers will know that I have a couple of holiday cottages in north Suffolk. One of the reasons I love going there so much, apart from the lovely gentle rolling countryside and the beautiful varied coastline, is the great locally produced foods you can get there. So when I got the chance to go on a Guild of Food Writers trip to visit producers in the nearby area, I jumped at the chance.

After taking the morning train to Diss we were picked up and taken to Fen Farm Diary who produce the award-winning Baron Bigod, a brie-style cheese as well as other raw milk products. We were given a tour of the diary and had the opportunity to watch the cheese making in progress. The Dairy is right next to the milking shed so you don’t get fresher than that. We then got to tour the farm, home to their mixed herd of Montbeliardes and Friesians.

This was followed by a delicious picnic up on the hill opposite the dairy where of course the Baron Bigod cheese took centre stage.

Next, we moved on to Wakelyn’s research farm to meet Hodmedod’s, suppliers of British-grown grains and pulses and winners of Best Food Producer in the BBC Food and Farming Awards 2017. We got to see some of Hodmedod’s British lentils being grown at the farm, ( until then I had no idea what a lentil plant looked like) which was set up by the late Prof Martin Wolfe, a pioneer in agro-forestry research, and to hear how the two have worked together on crop trials.

That evening we enjoy the warm welcome of Hales Hall, a stunning medieval house with a magnificent tithe barn, set in beautiful formal gardens and surrounded by wild meadows. We had the entire house and its satellite cottages to ourselves. Supplied with local produce, including bread from the nearby Penny Bun Bakehouse amazing game pies from Truly Traceable and accompanied by wines kindly provided by Adnams, we cooked our own dinner together in the vast and well-equipped kitchen of the hall.

After a leisurely breakfast, the next day we left Hales Hall for Flint Vineyard, where Ben and Hannah Witchell gave us a tour of the vineyard and winery before a tasting session. I loved all the wines but particularly the Bacchus. Others raved about the Pinot Noir.

While at Flint vineyard, we also got to meet Jackie Kennedy from Marsh Pig to taste her award-winning British charcuterie, made from free-range pork and rare breed beef. We had already had a taster of this fabulous charcuterie at our picnic the day before.

All good things must come to an end but not before a fabulous two-course lunch at The Fox and Goose, Fressingfield. It’s a tough life being a cookery writer but someone has to do it!

All the producers we visited were within a 10 mile radius of my cottages some just into the county of Norfolk. I knew the area produced great produce, indeed we could easily have spent longer meeting more great local producers, but that would be greedy. A huge thank you, Linda Duffin aka Mrs Portly, for all the hard work in organising the tour and to all the fabulous local producers who made us so welcome.

Back to earth and

#CookBlogShare 4 Fruity Desserts

As per usual it never easy choosing the best of the recipes linked up to #CookBlogShare as each week there are so many fabulous recipes linked up. Last week was no exception. Looking for a theme it was clear that sweet dishes were appealing just now with more sweet than savoury dishes. Perhaps it is because now there are so many fruits available at this time of the year to add flavour to our desserts and bakes and so we have it. I’ve chosen 4 rather delicious looking fruity desserts for my pick of the week.

Lemon Curd Cheesecake

I love cheesecake and my favourite is lemon cheesecake, so its not surprising that this Lemon Curd Cheesecake from The Baking Explorer took my eye. Kat added lemon curd, lemon extract and lemon zest to this cheesecake filling so there is no doubt you’ll get that lemon hit in every bite! Plus there’s extra lemon curd on top which makes the whole cheesecake look so bright and summery. If I wasn’t already won over by all that citrusy yumminess, its a no bake too which in the summer is another win.

Roasted Rhubarb Ice Cream

It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of rhubarb so this Roasted Rhubarb Ice Cream from Curly’s Cooking was the next fruity recipe to really catch my eye. Although the main growing season is almost over you may still find some rhubarb in the shops. if you grow your own you may find like I do you are able to harvest through the summer.

Simple Peach and Blueberry Crumble

This Peach and Blueberry Crumble from Everyday Healthy Recipes, is low in sugar and easy to make from just a handful of ingredients. The unusual combination of peach and blueberries is so colourful and looks absolutely delicious.

Healthy Crumble

My final fruity choice were these Healthy Crumbles from TheFree From Fairy. Being Gluten and diary free as well as free from refined sugars and low carb they are ideal for someone on a restricted diet.

#CookBlogShare 2019 Week 27

And Now to this week’s linky

Non-bloggers – skip to the bottom of the page and click on the thumbnails that catch your eye to take you to the website where the recipe can be found. Remember they will be added to as the week goes on, so don’t forget to pop back and take a look again later.

Bloggers Linking up this week?

As I am away this week it may take me a little longer than usual to visit and comment on all the posts linked please bear with me and I will of course still be sharing them on social media.

You can link up any foodie posts you have. Both old and new posts are welcome as long as they have not been linked to #CookBlogShare before. All you need to do is:

Link up a recipe or foodie post by clicking the blue ‘add your link’ button below and following the instructions. You can link up to 4 posts.

Add a link from your post back to this post (so everyone else can find it and link up too!) and / or add the NEW#CookBlogShare badge to your post (Code below – for WordPress copy and paste the code below into the text view of your post).

Comment on some of the other recipes linked up here (at least 2 for each link added but the more you can the better) and generally share the love with a bit of social media action!

Plus comment on either this post or one of the posts labelled HOST in the linky.

Just to remind you, by joining in you are giving the #CookBlogShare hosts permission to use your pictures in a roundup and on social media if your recipe is selected as one of our favourites!

Don’t forget to add #CookBlogShare to your Instagram post and check out/comment on what others are posting on the #CookBlogShare feed.

I will make sure I find the time to visit every post linked up this week, pin the recipes to our brand new shiny #CookBlogShare group boardand tweet the recipes. If you wish, you can tweet me a link to your recipe @recipecrumbsas well as (if you have room on the tweet!) my co-hosts Eb@easypeasyfoodie and Monika@MonikasRecipes, using the #CookBlogShare hashtag and we will retweet all that we see.

I will also comment on as many recipes as possible. Even if I do not have the time to comment on your post please rest assured, we really appreciate you taking the time to link your recipes and share others, we love having you as part of our fabulous #CookBlogShare community.

So, it’s over to you. I can’t wait to see what you’ve all been cooking!

About Jacqueline Bellefontaine

Jacqueline has been a cookery writer and food stylist for over 25 years and is a member of the Guild of Food Writers. She is the author of 18 cookbooks and now writes two blogs where she shares the recipes she cooks at home for family and friends, or just for fun. Jacqueline started her food writing career on a weekly magazine and as a result likes to champion good basic home cooking. The daughter of a master baker she is passionate about home baking and is happiest in the kitchen knocking up a batch of buns or baking a loaf of bread. Jacqueline has two grown sons and lives with her husband in Central London.

It sounds like you had a fantastic foodie trip! I love these fruity recipes too. I’m a real fan of crumbles and homemade ice cream as well as cheesecake – I really wouldn’t know which to choose if I had to!

What a fabulous foodie tour, wonderful produce, and producers! I love meeting the people who create such great food and seeing how they do it. And again another week of fantastic recipes; the roasted rhubarb ice cream sounds amazing. Thank you for hosting this week 🙂

What an incredible trip! I would love to do something like that. It sounds like so much fun. As a kid I remember going and visiting Cheddar and watching them make cheese. So fascinating. What a great roundup of recipes. Thank you so much for featuring one of mine!

Wow! What a month you’ve had – I should think you’ll be in need of a rest when you get back from your latest trip! I loved reading about your foodie tour of the Waveney Valley – and you made me realise I had absolutely no idea what a lentil plant looked like, either! Great roundup – last week really seemed to be the week for crumbles didn’t it? And the week before it was chicken nuggets – I wonder what this week’s impromptu ‘theme’ will be? Eb x